Jon Stewart Explains The Greek Crisis To The Great Unwashed

Tired of highly technical and sophisticated gobbledygook from doomers and other realists, talking about the Greek implosion in terms of CDS, liquidity freeze, Main Refinancing Operations (that is coming in the next post just after this one), FX swaps, contagion, etc? Then here is Jon Stewart to explain the Greek situation to everyone in a few short mintues. The fun starts 2 minutes into the clip.

It`s your responsibility to glean and back check. Even the most egregious lies require a grain of truth to remain plausible and even the biggest liars have to abandon making false claims once in awhile or risk losing all credibility. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Deep seated denial usually involves laughing at our own fucked-hood. Make no mistake about it, most people understand we are all in deep shit. But when we have been bred for abject apathy over several generation there isn't much left except gallows humor and one last party.

Well I use my Iphone to check zerohedge. I'd be better off just thinking about work projects more...make more money, hide more silver and quick fucking around worrying about what politicians SHOULD do when we know good god damn well they aren't going to do anything good.

i like jon stewart and all as a 'comedian' but he is a bullshit artist , his brother is just another wall street guy milking the printing press, and stewart is another liberal apologist for wall street.

yea, he talks a lot of smack sometimes, but actions are louder than words. i wouldn't look to stewart as someone to derive support from. in the end, he stands with the networks, who stand with the banks, because this is who pays him.

Uh...correction...Jon Stewart is a very arrogant man who is unable to see an issue from all sides. When and if confronted with an inconvenient truth from the conservative side of wisdom spectrum - he resorts to name-calling like all other blind progressives.

The true test of a truth speaker is what they doesn't talk about rather than what they do. Ultimately there are several subjects Stewart will not talk about, let alone joke about, at this time if he wishes to remain on the air. The mainstream media understands where the do-not-cross lines are buried.

From his point of view this isn't a problem. The world is full of 'acceptable' subjects to skewer. Why threaten his career by stepping on a third rail when he has nearly the entire train station to play in. This makes him nothing more than controlled opposition.........if he can even be called opposition.

I agree CD, I have been watching almost every episode of the daily show for eight years now, but lately I have lost intrest. The man is a coward frankly.

He has built up enormous credibility with young people and he needs to use it now. Hiding behind "im just a comedian" is extremely insincere. Very few people in media tell the truth, he is one of them, but he just scratches the surface.

Fully agree. He's probably a huge Krugman fan....and he likely worships the ground that Ayn Rand scurried accross - not because of her cool new spin on laissez-faire capitalism...but because of her strong anti-religious views.

Of course it is a relative term. And this relativity is precisely the mechanism we all use to remain in denial, including all of us here on ZH. We are not supremely enlightened with everyone else hopelessly stuck in the dark ages. In fact for us to proclaim that we know what's going on and then proclaim there is nothing we can do is in some respects simply showing our deeply conditioned apathy and impotence as opposed to those who don't know the real score.

At least 'they' can claim some sort of ignorance, willing or otherwise, for not pushing back. What's our excuse?

Worthy choice I'll take it. I'm a huge fan of his "Is America for Sale" series, to pick out one of his many good deeds in information dissemination. This group got anyone else or we already past this exercise in whining about Stewart not saving the country singlehandedly for us?

From what I've seen and heard, Judge Napalitano seems about the most cogent and coherent person who has their own TV show. I can't recall ever seeing him say anything disingenuous, or disagreeable from a libertarian perspective.

I think what we need is some sort of ZH Local setup. We name a bar/cafe in our nearest large city and appoint a time to meet there. With due respect to all, the anonymous conceit is a joke. As the song goes, "If you have a warrant I guess you're gonna com in." Our reservations at the FEMA camps are already booked. So let's get together locally, on our terms and plan local action.

Because we do sit around here whining, claiming that PM's will take down the big banks. We need to do more, IMO.

Make no mistake about it, most people understand we are all in deep shit. But when we have been bred for abject apathy over several generation there isn't much left except gallows humor and one last party.

Point well made but I'm not sure the people really get it. Except for the demonization of GS, the act of rioting because you don't get to retire at 53 is not playing well to an American audience. I doubt they see any linkage to themselves. To 99% of the sheeple, a banker is an ATM machine. Hope I'm wrong.

I agree. It isn't funny now that I know how messed up Greece is. I don't think the Bernank or any central bank can bail their way out of this epic screw up. I say just let the system collapse and start anew. Bailouts, money printing, and zero interest rates are just delaying the inevitable---global bankruptcy.

Makes you wonder if the TPTB are getting a kick out watching this? I mean, you throw it in the faces of these people, day in and day out, and yet they refuse to understand and will instead, laugh... while their being raped :(

For all of the times that I have been mocked for saying anything about whats coming... They will understand soon enough.

I think 'they' want our consent to justify their actions to themselves and each other. I fully agree that the true sociopaths don't care. But the top 5% that support the top 1%, and the 20% who support the 5%, do consider themselves to be (for the most part) moral and just and thus they need to be absolved, even blessed, for their behaviour.

Even the rich and powerful play psychological games with themselves. To think otherwise is to be naive. Read some of their (self written) biographies. They spend a great deal of time justifying their actions.

Bang on CD....nobody considers themselves as evil....and humans are very adept at rationalizing their behaviour, often being able to twist evil into virtue and vice-versa (depending on your perspective of course).

Rubbish ...Stewart is an establishment toe-rag, a socialist clown, you'll never get news from the Big Gob for Rent Show...

..in the week Obumma, Biden and Timmay robbed public pensions to pay the extortinate bills these 3 sheisters have run up Stewart focused on ad-hom attacks on defenders of set-up IMF Chief Strauss-Khan... don't mind theft, moral repulsion and total incompetence (the usual socialist fare) at the highest level of US Govt, let's focus on worthless garbage (Stewart and socialists in a nutshell)

I stopped watching when he started babbling about the retirement age. The link above shows retirement age in a few Euro countries. Notice that there are higher % of 'elderly' folks working in Greece than, say, in France. Stewart is not only a bullshitter but his smugness is sickening to watch.

Amen to that bro. Plus, he's as partisan as one can possibly be while denying it the whole time, and playing his "I'm a comedian card" over and over again. he knows that many people use him as a "source" for news, as sickening as that is.

wow, look at how all the believers junked you guys when you blasphemed their 5'2" idol.The guy is a typical hollywood rumplestiltskin. 6 foot two of ego wadded up and tied off with a twine made of little man complex. If "Star 80" is to be believed, how do you think he made it to the top?

"The guys a fucking tool and yet its pretty terrible how many people rely on him and think hes the best "NON-BIASED" source of news available."

Yah, all 15 of 'em... terrible. The horror.
Your Canadian alternative isn't much better though, you'll have to admit. Granted, when he acts like a schoolboy on a first date during interviews at least he has an excuse (Georgie Pordgie is like, what, 21 or something, dude. Whatever.)

Sheesh ZP, you and your two flag boys need to relax; have a drink. JS can deliver a monologue and the show has decent writers worth a laugh every once in awhile. JS is like a fourteen year old on a first date when he does interviews, no doubt, but you can always avoid that awkwardness with the click of a remote. I mean there are lulz to be had watching OReilly too; you seem to have no sense of haha.

both "Socialist hippies" and "fascist loonies" are good for laughs in their own rights, just like Canadians who voted Conservative are as easy targets for jibes as those who voted NDP.

"Please sir, may I have another..." -ZH commentor whose moniker I forgot.

I dont watch Strombo either, his 'Bro-ness' is quite unappealing. OReilly is indeed good for a laugh, but i watch almost no TV and so havent seen anything besides the viral video that is typically done at his expense.

Hahaha. Those red shoed 'Liberals' got smoked. (Honestly Jack, I'm laughing with them, not at them..) Now there're some PR guys who may find it difficult to obtain contracts in the future, eh?

Around 25% of eligible voters: is that what passes for a majority gov't in Canuckistan these days? Hardly a "mandate from the masses". Canadians sent the PC's a clear message all right with 5 mil for the NDP and 6 mil for the Ever Eternal Stephen Harper's Regressively Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Forever (has he changed the national letterhead to that yet?).

Voters: "Here's yer majority, but we got our eye on ya", for all the good that will do. The Canuckistanian political landscape looks pretty polarized right about now, even farther south than Inuvik. Here's another indictment of your 'first past the post' system: Roughly 4 times the number of Sask popular vote was NDP compared to the Libs, but the NDP got zero seats, and the libs still snagged one; weak.

Seriously though, don't ever assume anything about me. Quebec (sans vouloir vous offenser) is not the only place that has frogs. And yeah my conscience tells me that T.Douglas was most likely a (choke)...(cough)(gasp)(ahem) honourable politician and a decent man; in time enough, anyway. He put the secular humanism into '...dinosaurs lying with Jesus in a purely platonic fashion in the magical afterland garden called Neverest Foreverlessness'.

OTOH, their existence is part of what is so interesting about Canada. That and all its fresh water, rich mineral deposits, BC certified 'BeetleWood' lumber products, arable land, etc etc.,

I should have stopped at that point too. I saw the whole thing and he kept returning to this early retirement theme as the only explanation for the Greek crisis. I thought he was supposed to be liberal. Oh, well, I guess compared to Bill O'Reilly he is.

The only part I found funny was the explosives and yoghurt part. But the Daily Show didn't have to work on that one-- the reality of it is just funny. Maybe they should start advertising Greek yoghurt as thick enough to stick to a cop's helmet, or something like that :)

Aparently this bird believes it is OK to borrow money, run up debt, live it up on someone elses money then when they come to collect what you promised to pay, all of a sudden it's time for a philosophical time out. And you don't have to pay them because it wouldn't be convenient and, well, because they are mean.

Look, the fact of the matter is, both Fox and Stewart cater to completely different groups of people. Asking either party which one is closer to the truth will inevitably given you no concrete answer because, obviously, the bias is too strong.

Why one blindly cares for him as much as you definitely brings about question marks.

You are only partially accurrate. I agree that his show caters to certain viewers and obviously he is a slave to the machine (as most of us are ), which means most of the time you are not going to get to the nitty gritty of the matter but this does not mean that he still isn't one of if not THE most truthfull journalists on the MSM. That is my only care in this matter.

I'd like someone to offer one example of a more truthier person currently on television?! So far no one has done so but continue to bash without the slightest aknowledgement of this simple fact (no matter how sad it may be).

That has been my stance from the begining. Still doesn't mean turds of truth show themselves here and there. I happen to think that out of all the journalists who apear daily on television Stewart has let them out more so than all the others.

Stewart is just a lefty who does a stand up routine while sitting down. He is truthful the way George Carlin was truthful, but only one side of truth is still a huge lie by ommission.

I never saw Stewart take Obama to task for his intense support of Hugo Chavez and Manuel Zelaya in the failed Marxist takeover attempt of the Republic of Honduras, or blast him for not speaking up for human rights in the murders of Iranian protesters, or make Obama explain where the trillion dollar stimulus all went.

Instead, Stewart's standard fair is to mock people, on behalf of Obama, who call for fiscal responsibility and constitutional rule of law and executive restraint.

I agree with you mostly. I just don't disregard the good things he does despite the ommissions. You simply cannot be on TV and speak the truth all the time. Knowing this, I am OK and can respect the times when he is speaking truthfully.

I don't mind lefties, or anybody, as long as they can be honest about their own ideology.

Stewart fails to mention that the Greek government is longtime socialist/communist and that Obama and the lefties are the ones taking America down the same burning road, even as the whole world sees the danger.

There's months of material there for Stewart but he is instead pounding the table for more of Obama's MunchHausen by Proxy or he'd be out of his $15 million/yr job by TPTB for not towing the party line.

Jon Stewart did not shy away from covering the controversy surrounding his friend, Rep. Anthony Weiner, on Wednesday’s “The Daily Show,” the same day the congressman answered questions about a lewd picture sent from his Twitter account.

I love how this is turning into me "defending" Stewart when all I did was point out that he DID in fact go after Weiner the very same day. I never said how critical he was of him, only that he DID go after him right away.